How to Trim and Fertilize Roses
Hi, I’m Ken Smith of Furney’s Nursery, I’m out here this morning, I wanna prune some roses. I’ve got some pretty old rose bushes. They didn’t fair as well during the winter as we thought they would, so consequently there’s a lot of dead branches on them. Well, I wanna prune them back and now it’s first of April. With roses, you wanna prune them good so they produce new wood. New wood is where the flowers are formed. So let’s get down there and get some of these old branches. You can tell the dead branches, because it got no new growth coming out of them, and they’re off colored to. So, I want to prune it down here pretty close to the green wood as I make a nice clean cut out of it, there you go, that comes out pretty good. I just wanna get rid of some of this, this looks like root stock back here that’s come up. See that’s not a bad shape right there, but at this time of the year, I wanna take it down a lot, I wanna make it about 12 inches tall and I’m gonna try and find an outward growing bud to prune it above. So this is probably the closes thing to an outward bud right up here, it’s a little bit higher than I like, but I’ll do it anyway. This one over here, same thing, looks like I’ve got a bud right above there. I’m gonna take cut it like that. I’ll gonna cut it in a slight angle to, that way if a water lands on it, it will run off a little faster, won't sit there cause a problem. So on this one, like, I think I probably just take it down to there, then I’m just gonna prune this one to there. That’s all you need to do to prune a rose in this area. This time of year it’s good to cut it back low, later in the summer, you wanna cut it back, after it’s bloomed, after the flower started to fade or you cut the flower, cut it back to the first five leaf. This is what is was talking about earlier, when you have flowers and you cut your flowers off your rose in the summer time, you wanna prune that back, but if you just prune it back to the next leaf, it’s not necessarily gonna produce a rose, so you wanna go back ‘til you find a leaf that has five little leaflets, one, two, three, four, five. And it maybe down the stem quite a way, but that’s where you need to cut it and that will produce a rose flower right in there. Hi, I’m Ken Smith for Furney’s Nursery, we’re out here this morning, we’re gonna do a little rose fertilizing, we got a few rose bushes, I’ve pruned one, I wanna put some fertilizer on it. It’s first of April. It’s time to get fertilizer down get some good vigorous growth out of the rose. So what I’m gonna do, I’ve got this Dr. Earth 572 rose and flower fertilizer, really good product, it’s all organic, it’s got soil microbes that are beneficial to the soil and to the root system. And I’m just gonna sprinkle that around here in probably about a cup to three quarters of a cup, just like that, right around the drip zone and then I’m just gonna scratch it in. Scratching it in, make sure that the fertilizer makes contact with the soil, there’s a little bit of moisture there so the soil will start to break down, it will start to do the job it suppose to do. And it doesn’t hurt to loosen up the soil down, because anyway… there you are. This is Ken Smith from Furney’s Nursery fertilizing roses.